Banking
Quantized calibration in local volatility
Quantization is applied to price vanilla and barrier options
Funding in option pricing: the Black-Scholes framework extended
Wujiang Lou shows the impact of funding costs on option valuation
Two measures for the price of one
Harvey Stein combines risk-neutral and real-world measures into risk methodology
Warehousing credit risk: pricing, capital and tax
Kenyon and Green model the effects to pricing of credit warehousing, capital and tax
FVA accounting, risk management and collateral trading
Albanese, Andersen and Iabichino present a method for accounting and risk managing FVAs
Pricing and hedging variance swaps on a swap rate
A pricing tool for fixed-income volatility products is introduced
Backward induction for future values
A new framework for derivatives pricing with valuation adjustments
KVA: capital valuation adjustment by replication
KVA are introduced to take into account the effect of capital on funding
Back-testing expected shortfall
Three easy-to-implement methods for back-testing expected shortfall
Path-consistent wrong-way risk
A copula-based model for wrong way risk
Short-rate joint-measure models
A joint-measure model combining Q-measure and P-measure
Path-dependent volatility
Julien Guyon on path-dependent volatility models
Credit exposure models backtesting for Basel III
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has introduced strict regulatory guidance on how to validate and backtest internal model methods for credit exposure. Fabrizio Anfuso, Dimitrios Karyampas and Andreas Nawroth incorporate these guidelines into a…
Regulatory costs break risk neutrality
Regulations impose idiosyncratic capital and funding costs for holding derivatives. Idiosyncratic costs mean that no single measure makes derivatives martingales for all market participants. Chris Kenyon and Andrew Green demonstrate that regulatory…
Adjoint credit risk management
Adjoint algorithmic differentiation is one of the principal innovations in risk management in recent times. Luca Capriotti and Jacky Lee show how this technique can be used to compute real-time risk for credit products, even those valued with fast semi…
Operational risk modelled analytically
Regulators require banks to use an internal model to compute a capital charge for operational risk, which is thought to be sensitive to assumptions on dependence between losses that still remain a matter of debate. Vivien Brunel proposes an analytical…
Expectiles behave as expected
Expectiles' results are analogous to those of value-at-risk and expected shortfall
Credit goes to forward rate spreads
Term structure of interest rates explained with a credit model
Why CDOs work
Collateralised debt obligations have largely gone under the radar since the 2007 financial meltdown, when their market collapsed. Nearly every attempt at explaining the cause of their failure pointed towards flawed assumptions in pricing models and…
Smile transformation for price prediction
Prediction of arbitrage-free option prices that outperform existing models
Regulatory-optimal funding
A treasury viewpoint on the funding optimization problem
Options for collateral options
Options for collateral options
The simple link from default to LGD
The simple link from default to LGD
Local correlation families
Local correlation families